standards.7 This is a kind of catch-22 for many women. Their sensitivity to the needs of others and the way they assume responsibility for taking care of others often lead women to listen to voices other than their own and to include other points of view when making moral judgments.8 On Kohlberg’s scale, this appears as moral weakness. Return to the issue about a young woman facing the question of aborting a child. Frederica Mathewes-Green9 spent a year interviewing postabortion women in various